Israeli army says it is stepping up attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli military says it has conducted a "targeted" strike in Lebanon's capital, Beirut. Just how much support is there inside Israel for the intensification of the conflict? We hear from an Israeli politician with the centrist opposition party, Yesh Atid.
Also on the programme, will a new defence supremo in Brussels help or hinder Europe's attempt to bolster its security? And we look at the way octopuses and fish co-operate in the sea.
(Photo: People gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs. Credit: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.2 | studios in London. I'm Tim Franks and we're back in the Middle East back |
| 0:11.3 | across the Israel-Lebanon border not on the scale of the enormous |
| 0:15.7 | barrage and bloodshed of yesterday but still with the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon |
| 0:20.5 | firing missiles into Israel aimed it says at military bases, and the Israeli |
| 0:25.0 | Air Force striking what it calls terror targets in the suburbs of Beirut in the Becker Valley |
| 0:30.4 | to the east of the capital, and once again in southern Lebanon and we have an |
| 0:34.5 | update from that huge wave of airstrikes of Israel carried out on Monday in southern |
| 0:38.9 | Lebanon against Hezbollah. The Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad today said the casualty figures now stand The |
| 0:43.3 | Cajalty said the casualty figures now stand at 558 dead, including 50 children, |
| 0:49.6 | more than 1,800 injured. |
| 0:53.7 | Let's cross first to Beirut and our correspondent there, Ugo Bachega. |
| 0:58.4 | And Ugo, shortly before we came on air, there was news of a further air strike in Dachia in the southern |
| 1:06.0 | Beirut suburbs. |
| 1:07.0 | What more can you tell us? |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, I'm not really far from Dachir and this happened about an hour ago another Israeli |
| 1:16.4 | airstrike targeting Hezbollah stronghold here in Beirut. |
| 1:22.1 | Israeli media report suggested was a targeted assassination. |
| 1:26.5 | We don't have details about who could have been the target of this attack, but the images |
| 1:32.0 | emerging from this, but the images emerging from the aftermath of this |
| 1:35.2 | as strike show widespread destruction building partially destroyed and again another indication that the Israelis |
| 1:45.6 | are continuing with this offensive against Hezbollah with these targeted |
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